Perhaps; but it isn't easy to point out precisely wherein the good fortune consists.
This much is certain: it is surely a hazardous occupation now.

Henry James remarked, too, that nobody could afford to miss the experience of being here--nobody who could be here.

Perhaps true, again; but I confess to enough shock and horror to keep me from being so very sure of that.
Yet no other phenomenon is more noticeable than the wish of every sort of an American to be here.

I sometimes wonder whether the really well-balanced American does.

Most of them are of the overwrought and excitable kinds.
A conservative lady, quite conscientious, was taken down to dinner by Winston Churchill.